Luminato's 2010 Music Lineup Features Bruce Cockburn, Bela Fleck, Bassekou Kouyate & John Malkovich

TORONTO, CANADA (Top40 Charts/ Luminato Festival Official Website) - Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, is pleased to announce its music programming for 2010. This year's program features Canadian singer- songwriter Bruce Cockburn, world music legends Be'la Fleck and Bassekou Kouyate, and award- winning actor John Malkovich in a performance with the Vienna Academy Orchestra. The music program supports the 2010 Festival's celebration of the Diva, East/West, and works that express human and artistic rights. Luminato takes place June 11-20, 2010. Tickets go on sale April 15.

Two-time Oscar nominee John Malkovich makes his Luminato debut starring in the true story of celebrated Austrian author and notorious murderer Jack Unterweger in The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer. The piece features a series of monologues paired with operatic arias performed by two soprano soloists accompanied by the Vienna Academy Orchestra.

Perennial favourite The Canadian Songbook returns this year paying tribute to the 40-year catalogue of Bruce Cockburn, one of Canada's greatest guitarists and singer-songwriters. Cockburn will share the stage with friends and fellow musicians in this one-night-only performance at Massey Hall. In addition to the previously announced North American premiere of Prima Donna, Rufus Wainwright will also perform a solo concert featuring work from his new album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu on stage at the Elgin Theatre. The oratorio Dark Star Requiem, co-commissioned by Luminato and Tapestry, tells the history of the HIV-AIDS pandemic in North America and Africa, while a free open-air concert at Queen's Park on Luminato's opening weekend features Grammy award-winner Be'la Fleck and Mali's Bassekou Kouyate.

"We're very excited about this year's lineup of artists," says Luminato's Artistic Director Chris Lorway. "The mix of Canadian legends, African superstars, and an award-winning actor working with one of the world's great orchestras will make this our most exciting music program to date."

"We're proud to present our first full-scale commissioned opera as well as free concerts with an incredible variety of local and global musicians," says Luminato's CEO Janice Price. "Luminato's musical events will fill Toronto's concert halls and public spaces with opera, pop, and global music."